Series
The Big Life Fix
Documentary
The UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to every-day problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need.
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Seasons & episodes
- 1Episode 17 Dec 2016 · 59mThe team of inventors are challenged to come up with solutions for three very different problems. They attempt to help a terminally ill photographer who can no longer use his hands to operate a camera. They try to bring cutting-edge communication to a remote Welsh village which has no internet access and an unreliable telephone connection. And they work to give some control back to a young designer who has Parkinson's disease and who has been unable to use a pen since developing tremors in her hands two years ago.
- 2Episode 214 Dec 2016 · 59mThe UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to every-day problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need. The team attempt to tackle one of the biggest rural crimes in the UK and work to find a way to build a BMX bicycle for a young boy who was born with no hands or feet. Meanwhile, in Peterborough, 57-year-old Graham is suffering from locked-in syndrome, meaning he is almost completely paralysed and unable to speak. Can the team come up with a way for him to have conversations with the medical team around him and, most importantly, his family and friends?
- 3Episode 321 Dec 2016 · 59mThe UK's leading inventors create ingenious new solutions to every-day problems and build life-changing solutions for people in desperate need. Mum of two Shamreen suffers from a degenerative condition which has left her with very limited vision, and she is struggling to get around in public with her two young sons. Seven-year-old Rosie had brain surgery as a baby and now wears a cumbersome medical helmet. She desperately wants the team to invent her a new helmet that will be less visible and help her fit in with her friends. And the team are challenged with coming up with a solution to help two teenage brothers with cystic fibrosis - a debilitating disease that severely affects their breathing.
Details
- First aired
- 7 Dec 2016
- Last aired
- 16 Aug 2018
- Status
- Returning Series
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 7
- Votes
- 1 on TMDB
